malignant
(adjective) dangerous to health; characterized by progressive and uncontrolled growth (especially of a tumor)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
malignant (comparative more malignant, superlative most malignant)
Harmful, malevolent, injurious.
(medicine) Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue.
• (medicine): benign, non-malignant
malignant (plural malignants)
A deviant; a person who is hostile or destructive to society.
(historical, derogatory, obsolete) A person who fought for Charles I in the English Civil War.
Source: Wiktionary
Ma*lig"nant, a. Etym: [L. malignans, -antis, p. pr. of malignare, malignari, to do or make maliciously. See Malign, and cf. Benignant.]
1. Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious. A malignant and a turbaned Turk. Shak.
2. Characterized or caused by evil intentions; pernicious. "Malignant care." Macaulay. Some malignant power upon my life. Shak. Something deleterious and malignant as his touch. Hawthorne.
3. (Med.)
Definition: Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria. Malignant pustule (Med.), a very contagious disease, transmitted to man from animals, characterized by the formation, at the point of reception of the virus, of a vesicle or pustule which first enlarges and then breaks down into an unhealthy ulcer. It is marked by profound exhaustion and usually fatal. Called also charbon, and sometimes, improperly, anthrax.
Ma*lig"nant, n.
1. A man of extrems enmity or evil intentions. Hooker.
2. (Eng. Hist.)
Definition: One of the adherents of Charles L. or Charles LL.; -- so called by the opposite party.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
12 January 2025
(noun) (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition; “owls have nocturnal habits”; “she had a habit twirling the ends of her hair”; “long use had hardened him to it”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
